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Science World Report
In 2010, Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano produced an ash cloud that wreaked havoc and stopped air traffic across Europe for several days. The lava meeting the ice created and explosive reaction, which pumped vast amounts of ash into the atmosphere. Ice and lava, when put together, create an explosive combination, but there are also "pillow lavas," which pile up in blobs on the sea floor. Scientists from the University at Buffalo in New York are studying the reactions by cooking their own batch of lava and adding water to it.
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Phys.org
Fifty years ago, there was a seismic shift away from the longstanding belief that Earth's continents were permanently stationary. In 1966, J. Tuzo Wilson introduced to the mainstream the idea that continents and oceans are in continuous motion over our planet's surface. Known as plate tectonics, the theory describes the large-scale motion of the outer layer of the Earth. At 50 years old, with a surge of interest in where the surface of our planet has been and where it's going, scientists are reassessing what plate tectonics does a good job of explaining — and puzzling over where new findings might fit in.
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Los Angeles Times
For nearly half a century, thousands trekked to Rose and Prospect streets in Hayward, California, to behold a slice of sidewalk that, by conventional standards, had no curb appeal. Pulled apart so that it no longer aligned, the humble curb wasn't much to look at. But for earthquake scientists, it was a kind of Holy Grail, perfectly illustrating the seismic forces at work underneath this Bay Area neighborhood.
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This year the 53rd meeting of the American Institute of Professional Geologists National Conference is being held in the beautiful and historic city of Santa Fe, New Mexico. It's an exciting time for geologists as we are continuously challenged to work with economic resources and environmental responsibilities inherent to the profession. As always, the national conferences provide opportunities to learn from knowledgeable speakers and one another's experiences. Register is open — Online and Registration form. Presentations.
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Scripps Institution of Oceanography
A Scripps Institution of Oceanography at University of California San Diego-led research team analyzing satellite cloud records has found that the cloudy storm tracks on Earth are moving toward the poles and subtropical dry zones are expanding. Cloud tops are also moving higher in the atmosphere. The record confirms computer climate models that have predicted these changes to have taken place during the past several decades as a consequence of the accumulation of societally generated greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
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OilPrice.com
China's Xinhua news service is reporting the discovery of a large natural gas field in the Guizhou Province, located in the southwest part of the country. According to the country's Ministry of Land and Resources' CGS, geologists located four layers of shale gas at Anye Well 1 in Zunyi. Tests in one layer found a steady output of 100,000 cubic meters of gas per day. The CGS said that the amount of accessible gas is around 100 billion cubic meters.
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Smithsonian
The Mariana Trench is one of the most enigmatic spots in the ocean. This crescent-shaped scar in the Earth's crust forms where the Pacific plate collides and sinks below the Philippine plate. It runs for 1,500 miles and contains the deepest spot known in the ocean: the Challenger Deep, which hides 6.83 miles below the surface. NOAA's Okeanos Explorer set sail last April, mapping and researching the area for three months.
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University of California Santa Cruz
Andrew Fisher, professor of Earth and planetary sciences at the University of California Santa Cruz, has done influential research on groundwater and aquifers, as well as water circulation in the seafloor. In recognition of his contributions, the Geological Society of America will award Fisher the 2016 O. E. Meinzer Award from the GSA's Hydrogeology Division.
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Live Science
A network of ancient rivers lies frozen in time beneath one of Greenland's largest glaciers, new research reveals. The subglacial river network, which threads through much of Greenland's landmass and looks, from above, like the tiny nerve fibers radiating from a brain cell, may have influenced the fast-moving Jakobshavn Isbrae glacier over the past few million years.
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Montanta State University
A railroad causeway built in the 1950s created a unique opportunity for researchers at Montana State University to study microscopic descendants of life forms dating back 3.5 billion years. The results of their studies led the two MSU faculty members and 10 graduate students to co-author a paper to be published this summer in Geobiology, a leading international science journal.
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Futurity
Scientists are testing a new model for predicting the number of hurricanes that are expected to form during the Atlantic hurricane season, which runs from June 1 to Nov. 30. When they tested the model by hindcasting the number of hurricanes that occurred each season from 1900 to 1949, they found it improved the accuracy of seasonal forecasting for the North Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico by 23 percent.
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